The "Tel Aviv Dance" festival will open at the end of the month at the Suzanne Dellal Center, with 30 performances from Israel and abroad taking the stage.
A perusal of the program reflects a curatorial work that aims to open the doors of the center, which is often considered a cultural tooth tower, to invite new audiences to watch contemporary dance.
One of the steps in that direction is a rich five-day hip-hop program, featuring leading artists from the field from the country and the world, and its highlight event will be a showcase competition as is customary in the genre.
In addition, this year the emphasis was on experiential enrichment and workshops will be held with the creators, so that the physical experience will not be reserved only for the festival dancers but will be open to all.
Also this year, groups that are usually absent from the big dance festivals will take part in the festival, including groups of dancers from Kfar Yassif, the Jewish-Arab Center and "Haredim for Rhythm" - an ultra-Orthodox hip hop group.
"An Act in the World" by Aviv Horowitz,
Other unique performances for the whole family will be performed on stage in the belief that children deserve quality art and that exposure to art from an early age is what will build the audience of the future.
In this setting, the children will follow the performer Rotem Volk in her work "The Hidden Safari" or watch "Act in the World" by creator Aviv Horowitz, and discover that with imagination and movement under the bench a giraffe may hide and their hand may become Flamingo's neck.
The international dance segment will host four performances, including "Newtopia" by Patricia Afragi of the Body Project from Austria and "Movement" by Neta Yerushalmi, which creates in New York.
Each of the creators uniquely examines expressions of different dance styles and movement habits.
Matan Daskel in "Palace in Time", Photo: Diego Rozman
The local scene will feature several works dealing with burning social issues, including "One and Another" on domestic violence by Ronit Ziv, "Command Throat" which connects post-trauma and politics by Rotem 1948, and "Che" which brings together Arab demonstrators by Nur Alongside these, the show "Housework - Tributes", performed by the Noa Eshkol Dance Group, will feature dances from the 1960s to the 1990s, composed by the movement's creator and pioneer.
Also, Uri Shafir, a dancer and choreographer who began his career in the Batsheva Ensemble and won quite a few awards for his works, will come up with his solo work "No Forest", in which he claims that "seemingly, there are no places more opposite and different in nature than the forest and the theater stage" .
Over the years, the center has hosted various platforms for nurturing the future generation.
The "1/2/3" project, which accompanies artists at the beginning of their journey for the second year, will be presented at the festival and even invited to tour overseas.
"One and another" by Ronit Ziv, Photo: David Kaplan
The festive opening of the festival is reserved for the Orchestra in Time, a show that Matan Daskel (Batsheva, Jasmine Goder) is one of its main initiators and partners.
Daskel conducts the orchestra players, who are currently releasing a new single with the artist Ohad Fischoff, and motivates them to listen and harmonize, and thus the experience we are used to listening to music changes itself and becomes a movement session.
Naomi Perlov, Artistic Director of the Suzanne Dellal Center: "This year's curators choose to expand the perception of the general public about what art is. Contemporary dance is related to sound, lighting, cinema, images, so we present at the Tel Aviv Dance Festival 2022 multidisciplinary performances that combine "In addition, we also turned the spotlight on the pursuit of body image and gender, as well as combining international works and local work, which gives a stage to new and fresh talents."
The Tel Aviv Dance Festival will take place at the Suzanne Dellal Center between the dates 13/08 / 2022-28 / 07/2022.
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